The cattle industry in the United States comprised a relatively setable 33 million head that were replaced by roughly 5.7 million beef calves - both male and female - each year.
There were nearly 9 million dairy cows in the United States requiring 4.1 million replacement heifers each year.
In the United States the $11 billion pork industry was vertically integrated and highly concentrated.
Management of Technology - Fall 2008 ($3150)
I was a tad amazed and quite grossed and wondering what a Masters candidate of Information Technology doing learning this. Thankfully, the $3150 is not coming out of my pocket.
Added about 10 minutes later
After a certain company conducted research and here is the quote "We conducted focus groups and when we looked at the data it was clear that the public had a very 'comic book' perception of what cloning was. In their mind they saw adult animals leaping fully grown from giant petrie dishes, which they certainly didn't want in their food."
To date clones had only been produced in small numbers under a "one off" approach. Going forward, clones would need to be produced by the thousands to fulfill commercial demand.
So I did get some useful information and some portion of the $3150 is worth it. I am still glad its not coming out of my pocket though
1 comment:
When I first heard of cloning, I never thought it would be used for food!
Maybe they would also clone apples, potato - oh wait, you can just plant them!
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